Quotes: The Quick and Dirty Guide To

Use precise verbs that tell us more than say

Acknowledges Adds Admits Addresses Argues Asserts Believes Claims Comments Compares Confirms

Contends Declares Denies Disputes Emphasizes Endorses Grants Illustrates Implies Insists Notes

Observes Points out Reasons Refutes Rejects Reports Responds Suggests Thinks Writes

Always integrate quotes into the structure of your own sentences. Nonconventional: In Genre as Social Action Carolyn Miller provides a more nuanced explanation of the rhetorical concept of genre. Genre, in this way, becomes more than a formal entity; it becomes pragmatic, fully rhetorical, a point of connection between intention and effect, an aspect of social action (153). Conventional: In Genre as Social Action, Carolyn Miller provides a more nuanced explanation of the rhetorical concept of genre when she argues that Genre, in this way, becomes more than a formal entity; it becomes pragmatic, fully rhetorical, a point of connection between intention and effect, an aspect of social action (153). Impress with syntactic prowess! (varying syntactic structures creates prose that is stimulating and more readable)

A new type, Miller explains, is formed from typifications already on hand when they are not adequate to determine a new situation (157).

Quotes longer than four lines are indented Miller identifies the vast implications of rhetorical genre theory for education as follows: The perspectives on genres proposed here has implications not only for criticism and theory, but also for rhetorical education. It suggest that what we learn when we learn a genre is not just a pattern of forms or even a method of achieving our own ends. We learn, more importantly, what ends we may haveL we learn that we may eulogize, apologize, reccomend one person to another, instruct customers on behalf of a manufacturer, take on an official role, account for progress in achieving goals. (165)

Adding or Omitting words in quotes. Situations, Miller tells us, are social constructs that are the result...of definition (156). Miller argues that in order to understand recurrence, it is necessary [that we] reject the materialist tendencies in situation theory (156).

Framing Carolyn Millers Genre as Social Action allows us to see genre as something that creates possible situations and actions. Genres are not only, as she asserts, ways to achieve particular goals. Genres represent the goals themselves, what can be accomplished in a situation. This line of thinking might also be applied it typical genres in psychology. The genres analyzed in this essay show that these textual typications represent a range of possible actions available for someone working in this field.